Sentences with phrase «of acorns from»

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• Acorns, a Newport Beach, Calif. - based micro-investing app, raised funding of an undisclosed amount from The Rise Fund.

When Vitter was in the House of Representatives he actually took calls from the DC Madam during roll call votes; later, Sen. Vitter expressed outrage over purported actions of the poverty group ACORN, where several staffers showed tolerance toward conservative operatives with a hidden camera who were pretending to be involved in prostitution.

«(I had) this dream that from a tiny acorn, the potential of a young person, could grow this massive oak tree... as Nelson Mandela said: «Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.»

Instead of using complex analytics to determine your ideal savings amount, Acorns rounds up every purchase to the nearest dollar and transfers the remaining difference from your checking account to your Acorns savings account.

However, we must hasten to add that the fullness of time is not merely the quantitative sum of previous times, for this, too, would be no more than the case of an acorn becoming a super-acorn, or a bucket being filled by drops from the faucet.

Today the staffs of ACORN and the AFL - CIO increasingly come from the same Belmont world as do the investment bankers at Goldman Sachs.

If the children are mean or rude or disrespectful, the leading citizens of the community will cluck their tongues and say, «The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.»

For example: first, the concept of the oak - tree involves a process, an intrinsic and entitative process of development, from early acorn to majestic oak.

Lunch was leftover filling from my beloved Tempeh Stuffed Squash over spaghetti squash because I ran out of acorn squash.

Like a squirrel preparing for winter, he's recently amassed an impressive supply of autumn trinkets — smooth and hatted (some) acorns, little nuts that come from oak trees.

You can also substitute homemade acorn squash puree with any type of squash puree, homemade or from a can.

Using a spoon, carefully scrape the cooked flesh from acorn squash; transfer to pot of cooked rice and reserved cooking liquid.

Scoop the acorn squash flesh from the skin (equals about 3 cups) and add to a food processor, along with 1 cup of hot liquid from the soup.

Ingredients: • 1 pound pasta (of your choice, gluten free works well with this recipe) • 2 small acorn squash • 2 Tbsp olive oil • 1 medium onion • 1/3 cup fresh basil — washed and chopped • 1 tsp salt • 1 Tbsp coconut oil • 1 cup soft goat cheese • 1 - 2 Tbsp rice milk (original and unsweetened) Please note: the last 3 ingredients can be replaced with one cup of heavy cream if cow dairy is not a concern for your family Instructions: • Cut squash in half and onions is quarters, drizzle with olive oil • Place squash cut side down in a baking dish, surround with the onions and cover with aluminum foil • Bake at 400o for 30 - 40 min or until the squash is tender • Cook the pasta according to package directions • In a small sauce pan melt coconut oil, add goat cheese and allow to melt — stirring consistently • Add rice milk until desired consistency • Remove the squash flesh from the skin and place the flesh in the food processor with the onion, salt and basil — puree until smooth • Slowly add the melted goat cheese mixture while continuing to puree until you have a smooth sauce • Toss the squash / cheese mixture with the pasta and serve this delicious healthy kids meal

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

There are so many benefits to spending time in the great outdoors with your family too... stress relief, being unplugged from technology, time to talk, and little kids (and big kids) have a chance to explore using their imagination and find ways to play with sticks, acorns, rocks and all kinds of fun stuff!

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Given the many hours spent nursing, I've had plenty of time to enjoy the thoughtful details of the design --- the mix of floral with rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock as well as the acorns and oak leaves from the Middleton family's coat of arms.

The rebranded ACORN — New York Communities for Change — received a total of $ 1.3 million from the United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers from 2010 to 2013.

But the Democratic nominee got a huge, if not decisive, boost along the way from folks like Lewis — whose former organization, the disgraced, defunded and now disbanded ACORN, was a founding partner of the really big winner in this year's mayoral election.

[67] Later, Hoffman accused the Democratic Party of «bringing in ACORN» and trying to «steal this election away from the 23rd district», asserting that a campaign volunteer's tires had been slashed.

The census turned up more than 6,000 new species candidates, including the pair depicted here: an acorn worm from the deeps of the North Atlantic, and a polychaete worm (right) found on a whale carcass near Japan.

This answer from genetics matches up well with ecological modeling of the abundance of passenger pigeon food — acorns, beechnuts and other forest mast — in North America over the last few thousand years.

Dow used genetic analysis to trace the parentage of 282 individual acorns collected from three mother trees in a single stand of bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) on an abandoned farm in northern Illinois.

The study found that 8,600 families of genes are shared across deuterostomes, a large animal grouping that includes a variety of organisms, ranging from acorn worms to star fishes, from frogs to dogs, to humans.

Using the Dazl RRM domain, we searched for Dazl homologs in the genomes of acorn worm from Hemichordata (Saccoglossus kowalevskii), sea urchin from Echinodermata (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), lancelet from Cephalochordata (Branchiostoma floridae), and sea squirt from Tunicata (Ciona intestinalis).

Plus, it comes in 6 of those rich, beautiful colors that J.Crew is known for — from basic black and acorn (a neutral beige) to vibrant flame and spicy gold.

A collection of pieces from the Friendly Village is accented with metallic acorns, pinecones and pumpkins.

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Decorate the center of your table with Heirloom variety pumpkins, scattered acorns and turning leaves from around your home.

More texture and interest was added with a crate full of fall goodness including wheat grass, aspen leaves, acorn twigs, and some large faux acorns from Kirklands.

I bought a bag of acorns at Stein Mart for $ 6.00 All the acorns in my area hit the ground and the cap separates from the bottom.

I use a lot of sycamore leaves that fall from the trees in our area and the leaves seem to dry without curling... coupled with acorns and pheasant feathers, I'm set.

For Jolie, her desire to save the entire third world, one orphan at a time, manifests itself in a picture that poses the big - lipped beauty carefully as a fashion plate and a sainted martyr; a debutante with an amazing wardrobe and a UN worker with a streak of activism; and a figure in its way as ridiculous as Gooding Jr.'s caricature of a severely mentally - disabled man (James Robert Kennedy) that reminds, of all things, of that acorn - crazed, pre-verbal prehistoric squirrel from Ice Age.

Last week, Hammer to Nail published three more articles of mine: another review from the recent AFI DOCS festival, this time of ACORN and the Firestorm; an interview (also from AFI DOCS) with Stefan Avalos, director of Strad Style; and a review of Criterion's new Blu - ray release of Cameraperson.

Then another object falls from the sky onto Chicken Little and this time, there is little doubt that it is neither a piece of the sky nor an acorn.

Encourage children to think about the range of colours they choose, to make the acorn stand out from the background.

The rebranded ACORN — New York Communities for Change — received a total of $ 1.3 million from the United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers from 2010 to 2013.

She's been the target of street protests from union - backed community groups like ACORN and from politicians representing the very same low - income parents who overwhelmingly apply for seats in her network of 46 charter schools.

“ Mighty oaks from little acorns grow» certainly applies to Honda, which last year accounted for almost ten percent of new - vehicle sales in the United States.

The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed on acorns from a great oak, on wild fruits, on honey.

But from such acorns grow great oaks of bad money advice.

Acorns automates the investment process, but it also limits the types of accounts available and only offers a few fund options to choose from when robo investing.

Acorns is an investment service that invests your spare change automatically from everyday purchases into a diversified portfolio, plus you can get a $ 5 free credit just for creating a new account, and you'll earn an extra $ 1,000 in referral bonuses during May when you refer 12 new members, and that's on top of an additional $ 5 bonus for each new Acorns investor that you refer.

But whereas Acorns comes with limits in terms of portfolio options (you currently have just 5 portfolios to choose from if you're an Acorns customer), Stash offers more than 40 portfolio options to choose from, giving you a bit more control of where your money is going.

Where it differs from Acorns and Stash is that, instead of buying into pre-made portfolios, Robinhood customers purchase only the stocks and bonds that they want and believe in.

Main among these are: sticky foods, foods with sharp edges, carbonated drinks, caffeine, chocolate, onions, garlic, leeks, chives, scallions, avocado, eggplant, hot peppers, red kidney beans, raw potato or any sprouts or green parts of a potato, raw rhubarb or any rhubarb greens, tomato greens, sprouts from mung beans / lentils / chickpeas or other legumes, pits or seeds from cherries / apples / peaches / avocados, raw peanuts (boiled, they're OK in moderation), acorns, bitter almonds, buckeyes, citrus fruits or other acidic foods, and foods prepared with salt, vinegar, sulfites or spices.

Research is already underway at Cornell University under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Simpson, thanks to an initial ACORN grant from the AKC Canine Health Foundation.

The Yurok people, who occupied the region before European settlement, carried out regular burnings of redwood forests to bolster tanoak populations from which they harvested acorns, to maintain forest openings, and to boost populations of useful plant species such as those for medicine or basketmaking.

She grew many of the plants from seeds — including a foot - tall oak tree that she started from an acorn.